Lust, Caution

ER (1994–2009) is NBC's landmark medical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Created by Michael Crichton — who drew on his own time as a medical student — and produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, the series ran for 15 seasons and 331 episodes inside the emergency room of Chicago's County General Hospital.

No single character carries the whole show. Doctors, nurses and residents cycle through: Maura Tierney as Abby Lockhart, Angela Bassett as Dr. Banfield, Linda Cardellini as Samantha Taggart. The patients arrive by ambulance and on foot — crash victims, kids, people with nowhere else to go — and each case lands with real weight. Forty-five minutes at a stretch with no slack in the pacing.

Over its run ER collected 23 Emmy Awards and set the template that every medical drama since has tried to follow. Crichton's insider knowledge gives the medicine an authenticity that most shows fake. Stream all 15 seasons of ER online on iFILM.